On Tuesday, March 10, clergy of the southern deaneries of the Eastern American Diocese gathered at St. Mary of Egypt Church in Roswell (Atlanta), GA for the start of the Southern Great Lenten Clergy Retreat.

On Monday, March 9,  Archpriest George Johnson (rector of Holy Apostles Church in Beltsville, MD) reposed in the Lord. Additional biographical information will be posted as it is received.

During the first week of Great Lent, February 23-27, the full cycle of divine services was held in Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY. Leading the reading of the Great Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete in the evenings, as well as celebrating the Divine Liturgies of the Presanctified Gifts, was Eastern American Diocesan vicar Bishop Luke of Syracuse.

On March 1, the first Sunday of Great Lent, Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco & Western America celebrated the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great and the Rite of the Triumph of Orthodoxy in the Diocesan Cathedral of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" in San Francisco, CA.

With the beginning of Great Lent, Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America & New York officiated the divine services for the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy at the Synodal Cathedral in New York City.

With the beginning of Great Lent, Bishop Michael of Boston officiated the divine services for the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy in St. Xenia Church in Methuen, MA.

With the start of Great Lent, the divine services with the reading of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete were held in the Synodal Cathedral of the Sign in New York City. On Monday, February 23, Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America & New York officiated Great Compline with the reading of the Great Canon.

On the evening of February 22, Cheesefare Sunday – the Sunday of Forgiveness and the commemoration of Adam’s expulsion from Paradise – His Grace Theodosius, Bishop of Manhattan, prayed during the evening service and presided over the Rite of Forgivenes

On February 22, Cheesefare Sunday, the commemoration of the expulsion of Adam from Paradise, Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America & New York celebrated Divine Liturgy in the Synodal Cathedral of the Sign in New York City.

On February 22, Cheesefare Sunday, the commemoration of the expulsion of Adam from Paradise, His Grace, Eastern American Diocesan vicar Bishop Michael of Boston, celebrated Divine Liturgy in St. Xenia Church in Methuen, MA, co-served by parish clergy.